Island of Barbados

For our visit to Barbados, I joined a tour to see the rainforest and explore Harrison's Cave. The British heritage of the island was strongly evident from the style of buildings, the way fields were laid out, and of course the accents.

Barbados was originally inhabited by the Arawaks but were conquered by the cannibalistic Caribs in 1200. It's reported that Caribs ate and entire French ship crew in 1596. The Spanish took over the island in 1492 and enslaved the Caribs, but smallpox and tuberculosis wiped out the Caribs, and the Spanish abandoned the island due to its lack of mineral deposits.